The moon's ascending node (the point in the sky where its orbit crosses the ecliptic from south to north) is moving westward ...

An Aer Lingus passenger plane flies in front of the first full moon of the year known as the Wolf Moon, as it makes its ...

Understand the moon phases and you can wager a pretty good guess for when the next full moon is no matter where we are in the ...

The 'full moon' phase is as close as we come to seeing the sun's illumination of the entire day side of the moon. In 2025, ...

If you want to catch a glimpse or snap some photos of this year’s wolf moon, you’ll have a few chances. The moon will be 98% illuminated Sunday night, Jan. 12, in its waxing gibbous phase ...

a D-shaped quarter moon and a nearly full gibbous moon. Each phase is named according to where it falls in the 29½-day cycle, whether it is waxing (increasing) or waning (shrinking). The eight ...

There are eight phases of the Moon beginning with the new Moon, followed by waxing crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full Moon, waning gibbous, third quarter and finally waning crescent.